About Tufts

Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at research and providing students with a personal experience. Our unique combination of research and liberal arts attracts students, faculty and staff who thrive in our environment of curiosity, creativity and engagement.

Mission, Vision & Themes

University Leadership

Tufts at a Glance

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Libraries

Tufts' libraries across all campuses provide essential resources, information and technology to support your studies, scholarship and research.

Tisch Library

Digital Collections & Archives

Ginn Library (The Fletcher School)

Hirsh Health Sciences Library

Lilly Music Library

W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library (SMFA)

Webster Family Library (Veterinary)

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Careers

As a Tufts employee, you become part of a community of hard-working, intellectually curious and creative individuals. We offer a wide range of employment opportunities and resources to support Tufts’ diverse academic environment

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Human Resources

Benefits

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Brighter World The Campaign for Tufts

UPDATE: Resources and information on COVID-19 testing and more.

Innovation

We engender a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment with the unique potential to make a significant impact on complex local and global challenges.

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New & Notable

Building a Better Robot to Disinfect for COVID and More

Inspired by a hospital stay, a Tufts team creates a better and cheaper ultraviolet C light device for indoor spaces

New Filtering Method Promises Safer Drinking Water, Improved Industrial Production

Synthetic polymer membranes mimic the highly selective properties of biological cell membranes
Investing in the Power of Pathology and Genomics

State-of-the-art technology at the new Comparative Pathology and Genomics Shared Resource at Cummings School will help investigators interrogate the biology of diseases on another level
How a Dog with a Giant Tongue Was Saved by a Veterinary Surgeon

Cummings School professor Raymond Kudej’s research into brachycephalic breeds prepared him to perform what might be the first tongue-reduction surgery of its kind on a dog
Birds Got Rhythm, Telling Us Something About How We Form Speech and Movement

Recognition of rhythmic patterns by zebra finches and other species may be linked to ability to learn and repeat vocalizations

Events

Sep 20
Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Virtual Networking Event
Sep 22
Maker Faire at Nolop
Sep 23
A Conversation with the New York Times

Spotlights

Tisch College Community Research Center

Promotes collaborative research with community partners to redress issues of disparity, inequality and social injustice.
Civic Seed

An innovative, multiplayer game developed at Tisch College to prepare students for work in the community.
Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC)

Helps meet the need for updated classrooms, large meeting rooms, teaching labs, research labs, and office space, and includes a café and informal learning spaces.
M.S. in Innovation Management

An intensive, one-year professional master’s program that prepares you with important business and leadership skills to hit the ground running earlier in your career.
Science and Engineering Complex (SEC)

Currently under construction, the new complex will be an integrated teaching and research center on the Medford/Somerville campus featuring state-of-the-art laboratories for undergraduate and graduate students.
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)

Established to promote innovative collaborations in the humanities and arts. Encourages conversation and debate that reach beyond the traditional borders of a given discipline.